THE FINAL FRONTIER

Finding lost moon rocks man's mission

Samples given as goodwill souvenirs after NASA's lunar voyages

A fire set by an arsonist had torn through the state transportation museum in Anchorage, where the four rocks had been on display.

The fragments, each smaller than a pea, were among 48 pounds of lunar material retrieved four years earlier by astronauts aboard Apollo 11. President Nixon gave samples to each state to celebrate man’s first walk on the moon.